There is substantial evidence that on average, urban children have better health outcomes than rural children. This …

, riboflavin, thiamin, and vitamins A, C, D, and E 100 of Kenyan school children (6-9 years) within a multivariate longitudinal … framework. The explanatory variables were socioeconomic and background variables, children's body mass index, and maternal … controlling for unobserved between-children differences. The main finding is that while maternal education was usually not a …

This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three … groups, a treatment group, a neighboring spillover group, and a non-adjacent pure control group. Mothers of children (aged 3 … children. Spillovers to neighboring (untreated) mothers can be through social learning or imitation. Results from a difference …

disproportionately concentrated in India. We identify a large effect of birth order on neonatal mortality that is unique to India: later …-born siblings have a steep survival advantage relative to the birth order gradient in other developing countries. We show that India …'s high prevalence of maternal undernutrition and its correlation with age and childbearing can explain this pattern. We find …

disproportionately concentrated in India. We identify a large effect of birth order on neonatal mortality that is unique to India: later …-born siblings have a steep survival advantage relative to the birth order gradient in other developing countries. We show that India …'s high prevalence of maternal undernutrition and its correlation with age and childbearing can explain this pattern. We find …

gap existed in adult under-nutrition in India. The availability for the first time of comparable all-India nutritional …-economic inequity in India …

This paper analyses levels of women’s malnutrition in India over the seven years between 1998-99 and 2005-06, based on …